OPS5 | Exploration of Titan

OPS5

Exploration of Titan
Co-organized by MITM
Conveners: Audrey Chatain, Thomas Gautier | Co-conveners: Sandrine Vinatier, Nicholas Teanby, Bruno de Batz de Trenquelléon, Robin Sultana, Lucy Wright

Saturn's moon Titan, despite its satellite status, has nothing to envy the planets: it has planetary dimensions, a substantial and dynamic atmosphere, a carbon cycle, a variety of geological features (dunes, lakes, rivers, mountains and more), seasons, and a potential hidden ocean. It even now has its own mission: Dragonfly, selected by NASA in the frame of the New Frontiers program. In this session, scientific presentations are solicited to cover all aspects of current research on Titan: from its interior to its upper atmosphere, using data collected from the Cassini-Huygens mission (2004-2017) and/or from telescopes (e.g., ALMA, JWST) and/or based on modelling and experimental efforts to support the interpretation of past and future observations of this unique world.